«Is the Buddhist spiritual leader a white supremacist, an inveterate racist or even a closet Nazi? Only a very misinformed person would suggest such a thing. So how do we explain his recent remark that the millions of refugees who have been allowed to enter Europe should ultimately return to their homelands to “rebuild their own country”? Is that really such a vile and hateful suggestion?

Speaking at an event to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the founding of Individual Human Aid (IM), an international charity group that helped Buddhists resettle in Sweden following the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the 83-year-old Dalai Lama spoke without any fear of upsetting his PC-obsessed audience.

“Recently large numbers of refugees, many from the Middle East, have fled to Europe in fear for their lives,” he told a group of journalists.

“They have been given shelter and support, but the long-term solution should include providing training and education, particularly for their children, so they can return to rebuild their own countries when peace has been restored.”

“Receive them, help them, educate them… but ultimately they should develop their own country,” advised the 83-year-old Tibetan, who understands firsthand what it means to be an (legitimate) asylum seeker.

“I think Europe belongs to the Europeans,” he continued, adding that refugees should understand that “they ultimately should rebuild their own country“.»

2) «And beyond the extermination of all evils lay the Millennium. These people were utterly convinced that while the earth was being cleansed of sinners Christ would descend ‘in glory and great power’.»

Norman Cohn, The Pursuit of the Millennium – Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Oxford University Press, 1970, pag. 213